List of Articles عبدالرحمن منیف

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  1 - A Study on Ethnic Characterizations in "Cities of Salt" Novel by Abdul Rahman Munif
  Roohollah Sayyadi Nezhad Saeedeh Hassan Shahi
  Art of narration in Arabic literature does not own historical background – about a century and half. But novelty of this art in Arabic literature is not known as an obstacle to create works such as "Cities of Salt"; a work in which innovation is its initial featur More

  Art of narration in Arabic literature does not own historical background – about a century and half. But novelty of this art in Arabic literature is not known as an obstacle to create works such as "Cities of Salt"; a work in which innovation is its initial feature. Innovation in all elements specifically characterization, produces another question for the reader: what is the aim of creating various characters and general picture of this creation? The answer should be discovered in the characters' variety which is ethnic characterizations. This research studies characterization element in novels with the aim of clarifying the mentioned aspect of innovation followed by noticing two types of characterizations: individual characterization – the heroes of novel are analyzed; and ethnic characterizations which is the fundamental aim of the author. The studies of the present research show another characterization would manifest followed by Abdul Rahman Munif's political goals in which epic soul infuses and Arabic – ethic characterization would change by America's entrance. Manuscript profile
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  2 - The space of coffeehouse in Persian and Arabic novels: Ahmad Mahmood and Abd al-Rahman Munif
  Yadollah Malayeri Mojtaba Omranipour
  This study examines coffeehouse as a fictional space in the novels of Ahmad Mahmood, and Abd al-Rahman Munif. If space, on the one hand, is equal to the world, situation of entities, things and deeds, and on the other hand, a scale to measure knowledge and ontological, More

  This study examines coffeehouse as a fictional space in the novels of Ahmad Mahmood, and Abd al-Rahman Munif. If space, on the one hand, is equal to the world, situation of entities, things and deeds, and on the other hand, a scale to measure knowledge and ontological, sociological and cultural relations, the coffeehouse in the examined novels in this study is extract of this equality and scale. This focus on coffeehouse for the comparative study with the aim of opening a window for the dialogue between Iran and Arab world as well as to establish improvement of coexistence and multilateralism and justifies choose of the two writers, for their attention to the coffeehouse and values this study seeks. specially in Mahmood's novels hamsāyehā (neigbours), dāstāne yek shahr (the tale of one city) and zamine sukhte (burned earth), and Abd al-rahmān Munif's penta-volume modon al-milḥ (cities of salt), and triple novel of arḍ al-sawwād. This comparative study benefitted from achievements of two American and Russian literary schools that focus on similarities and inconsistencies of literary works and relationship between literature and other spheres of knowledge. This study has three section: 'coffeehouse: location and textual function'; 'coffeehouse and tradition' and 'coffeehouse and history'. At the end, reaches to the result that this space has considerable artistic and cognitive role in the examined novels and is one of the most important constituents of the story that helps writers via knowing its location and its relation to the history and tradition in the text, to convey aesthetic and epistemological messages to the reader. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Magical Realism in Maden Al Malah's Abdurrahman Monif
  reza nazemian yosra shadman
  The simplest definition that can be applied to magic realism is the accumulation of reality with magic, wander, hallucination and beyond. What it implies is that magical events happen in reality in a way that makes them look like being a part of reality.Lots of writers More

  The simplest definition that can be applied to magic realism is the accumulation of reality with magic, wander, hallucination and beyond. What it implies is that magical events happen in reality in a way that makes them look like being a part of reality.Lots of writers in Arabic countries found that area really appealing. Abdul Rahman Monif  in novel like “maden Al Malah” has chosen the style of magic realism.Considering magic realism, thought, magic, illusion, hallucination, symbol, sign, Sufis and Sufism, paradoxes, critical trends, writer‘s silence and his partiality towards magical occurrences are among its element that Has been studied in this article by Analytical descriptive method.This novel has been benefited from sociological influence, political issues, cultural backgrounds and critical views. Additionally Abdul Rahman Monif was impartial toward all unrealistic events around his and he does not any judgments. And In the magical realism fiction style, the author does not react to unrealistic and imaginary incidents and he does not even provide any explanations. So the reader believes in and accepts all unrealistic incidents. Also the author has succeeded with combination of magic with reality to express what goes on inside about Political and social and economic theorems with a cash approach. Manuscript profile